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3. Speak friendly unto her. Literally, “speak to her heart.”

She brought him. His approach was evidently successful, for she brought her husband into the house.

Rejoiced to meet him. The anxious hospitality of the concubine’s father indicates that the separation was probably regarded as a disgrace to the family. The father was outwardly apologetic and showed clearly his pleasure at the reconciliation by insisting that the Levite spend several days visiting with the family.